Monthly Archive for March, 2011

: March, 2011

As a reminder, the challenge is: make 3 new recipes each week from Patricia Wells’ new book, Salad as a Meal, for 4 weeks, and blog about it. That’s 12 new recipes total. Not a big challenge, but a challenge none-the-less. …

We are now deep into week two of the challenge, I am enjoying it more than ever. A couple days ago I tried the fish recipe pictured below. I must say, I chose to make the recipe because the ingredient list sounded so foreign to me, I could not imagine what the flavors would taste like cooked together. …

This recipe is essentially fish and potatoes cooked in milk, and then tossed with capers, cornichon pickles, parsley, and chives. Milk, pickles, and fish??? Sounds odd to me, but my goodness it is good. Subtle, but not boring. Rather delicious in fact. I will definitely make this again. This is especially true since Halibut is in season, and I still have loads of potatoes left over from last summer’s garden. …

Jacob and I enjoyed this lovely dish along with a green salad tossed with home cooked garbanzo beans and creamy lemon-chive dressing, buttered toast, and a glass of wine. It was a delightful way to start the week. Thanks for the inspiration and instruction Patricia Wells! …

What are you doing tonight at 6:30? If you don’t have plans, and you care about local, sustainable, healthy food, I’d love it if you joined me and others at the Danny Woo Children’s Garden fundraiser. The event will be a movie screening of the document… …

Those who know a little bit about my professional work will call me a soil scientist. Those that know me well, however, know that organic residual management is my jam. What is ‘organic residual management’ you ask? I suppose this means that if somethi… …

This sounds crazy but it is true. At my heart, I am a bean eater. Perhaps this affection for beans is a result of spending my years from age 8 to 22 as a vegetarian, but I am comforted by no food group as much as I am by beans. Most of my teenage … …

At this point, my copy of Patricia Wells’ new book, Salad As A Meal is all marked up with ripped bits of post-it notes. This is my relatively unorganized way of letting my future self know to “look here for an interesting sounding recipe”. The exercise… …

I am wrapping up week one of the salad challenge, and I have to say that I am really enjoying it. It has been a while since I have delved into trying so many new recipes, all at once. There I said it. For the last few years I’ve been in a recipe rut. M… …

Does anything scream spring louder than poached eggs and asparagus? I don’t know, but it sure felt springy this evening.Asparagus, ham, and poached egg salad Add a baby spinach salad with lemon and olive oil dressing, a bit of prosciutto, and some fres… …

Now that spring is officially here, we are quickly aproaching what my husband affectionately refers to as ‘salad season’. Okay so I made up the affectionate part, but he really does call it salad season.In just a few weeks I will have garden beds full … …

March 20th marked the first day of spring this year.I spent the weekend starting seeds, prepping beds, and generally waking things up from a long, cold winter. Saturday I enjoyed a solitary and meditative day of garden work at home. On Sunday I joined … …

It’s been months since Seattle gardens looked anything like this, but I have a hunch we will be harvesting spring crops in the blink of an eye.This Saturday we will be waking up the garden by turning compost, adding compost, weeding, and possibly sowin… …

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